Jun. 6—On the final day of Alaska’s legislative session, lawmakers passed a bill instructing the state board of education to adopt regulations governing correspondence programs. The vote came after a Superior Court Judge found correspondence programs — which allow the families of homeschooled children to receive state funding — were in violation of the state […]
Apr. 13—An Anchorage Superior Court judge ruled Friday that correspondence schools that reimburse parents and guardians for their children’s education-related expenses are unconstitutional. The 33-page decision has the potential to have major implications for the nearly 20,000 correspondence school students in Alaska and the state’s public education system more broadly. Correspondence programs allow students across […]